Lady Susan is an epistolary novel by Jane Austen about a beautiful and manipulative widow scheming to arrange wealthy marriages for herself and her daughter. This book is the basis for the film Love & Friendship, written and directed by Whit Stillman...

Lady Susan

The secret to success has been around since our ancestors crawled out of their cave, and went looking for a Mastodon for lunch. It’s a positive attitude. But even those with that attitude need a boost now and then, and here’s an hour of great ideas to listen to on that commute, so you will hit the ground running. A story masterfully told by that voice from “Down Under”, Denis Daly. 

Dollars Want Me

Among the earliest and most celebrated of the New Thought authors was James Allen (1864-1912). A reclusive man, he spent the last 10 years of his life in rural seclusion in the village of Ilfracombe, in Devon, during which period he wrote most of his...

As a Man Thinketh

Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw  Presented by The Online Stage  In the Greek legend, a sculptor, Pygmalion, created a statue of a woman so beautiful that he fell in love with it. Later the goddess Aphrodite responded to his earnest prayers and broug...

Pygmalion

In recent times the philosophy and practices promoted by the New Thought movement have attracted much attention through the burgeoning of the self-help industry and films such as The Secret. Among New Thought authors, William Walker Atkinson was not ...

Your Mind and How to Use It

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky is best known as the cofounder of theosophy, which is essentially a selective conflation of Hindu and Buddhist ideas combined with Blavatsky's idiosyncratic system of cosmology.  The Voice of the Silence, first published in ...

The Voice of the Silence

Sophocles (497 BC-406 BC), Aeschylus and Euripides formed a trio of ancient Greek tragedians whose works represent the foundation of the Western tradition of classic drama. Of the more than 100 plays written by Sophocles, seven have survived to the p...

Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles

Genevieve Behrend was a teacher and exponent of Mental Science, a New Thought discipline created by her mentor, Thomas Troward (1847- 1916). As the only direct student of Troward, the author had a unique insight into the philosophy and methods of her...

Your Invisible Power

This book, a true spiritual classic, consists of notes of several conversations had with, and letters written by, Nicholas Herman, of Lorraine, a humble man of little education. After having served as a soldier and a footman, Herman was admitted as a...

The Practice of the Presence of God

Miss Julie by August Strindberg. Presented by the Online Stage.  Miss Julie is probably the most famous play by the Swedish playwright August Strindberg, one of the founding fathers of naturalistic theater. In this claustrophobic drama, the interplay...

Miss Julie by August Strindberg

As the Enlightenment movement was gathering strength in the early 18th century, various challenges to established religious faith were launched. In response, a number of celebrated commentators produced defences of religion and morality, and among th...

An Essay on Man

A philosopher and pioneer of the New Thought movement, James Allen (1864-1912) has become something of an icon in the self-help industry of today. Many life coaches and motivational mentors have drawn material liberally, if selectively, from his writ...

Eight Pillars of Prosperity

Unlike many of his contemporaries, the English poet Francis Thompson (1859-1907) was a true mystic. While more celebrated poets, like Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Arnold, were content to express their religious leanings in traditional devotional formula...

The Hound of Heaven

Rosmersholm By Henrik Ibsen Translated by Charles Archer Presented by the Online Stage Rosmersholm is a play surrounding the deep and intense political and cultural change in Norway in the middle of the 1880s, a period during which the traditional ru...

Rosmersholm

Although unfamiliar with the Persian language, the eminent English poet and critic Richard le Gallienne had a profound interest in the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. In 1901 he published a collection of 261 quatrains, which was based on earlier English tr...

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

The Waste Land by T. S Eliot is narrated by Danielle Cohen and Denis Daly. Eliot's cross-cultural epic poem, first published in 1922, remains one of the most challenging poems in the English language. It is dedicated to Eliot's mentor, Ezra Pound. Like Pound, Eliot reveled in drawing allusions and quotations from a vast body of world literature.

The Waste Land

A Doll's House  By Henrik Ibsen  Translated by R. Farquharson Sharp  Presented by The Online Stage  A Doll's House, published in 1879, was the earliest of Ibsen's "social dramas", and the first of his works to attract attention outside of Scandinavia...

A Doll's House

For James Allen, philosopher and pioneer of the New Thought movement, the highest expression of personal realization was to be "in the world" but not "of the world." As Allen says, "The turmoil of the world we cannot avoid, but the disturbances of mind we can overcome." In this collection of short essays he discusses the attitudes and actions required for the attainment of that abiding inner peace "where the Heavenly Silence reigns."

Above Life's Turmoil

"The Vanity of Human Wishes: The Tenth Satire of Juvenal Imitated" is the most famous poem by the scholar and lexicographer Samuel Johnson. Many eminent critics, including Walter Scott and T. S. Eliot, consider it to be Johnson's crowning achievement...

The Vanity of Human Wishes

Spring Awakening  By Frank Wedekind  Translated by Francis J. Ziegler   Presented by The Online Stage   Spring Awakening (German: Frühlings Erwachen) was the first major play by Frank Wedekind. It was written in the early 1890s but, due to opposition...

Spring Awakening

The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Goddess Ishtar An introduction by Morris Jastrow. Narrated by Denis Daly.  The story of the adventures of the mythical hero Gilgamesh is the most considerable literary production that has come down to us from ancient Babylonia. Unfortunately, it was not preserved in complete form. This recording is of the fullest translation which had yet been issued in English when it was first published in 1917.

The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Goddess Ishtar

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (aka PG Wodehouse) wrote in excess of 90 books, 40 plays, and 200 short stories between 1902 and 1974 and is widely regarded as one of the greatest humorists of the 20th century. Right Ho, Jeeves! is his second in a ser...

Right Ho, Jeeves!

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is a poetic marvel, a work that has survived translation into many languages, while losing little of its force and its wry character. As a source of literary imagery and memorable quotations it ranks with the Bible and th...

In this work, James Allen delineates the internal pilgrimage that commences with the cultivation of faith and courage and ends in knowledge and victory.  In the words of the author: "Every being lives in his own mental world. His joys and sorrows are...

The Life Triumphant

It cannot be said of this book that James Allen wrote it at any particular time or in any one year, for he was engaged in it over many years and those who have eyes to see and hearts to understand will find in its pages the spiritual history of his life. It was his own wish that The Divine Companion should be the last MS of his to be published. From the Introduction by Lily L. Allen.

The Divine Companion

Oedipus the King, By Sophocles, Translated by Sir George Young, Presented by the Online Stage  Sophocles (497 BC - 406 BC), Aeschylus, and Euripides formed a trio of ancient Greek tragedians whose works represent the foundation of the Western traditi...

Oedipus the King

In this audiobook James Allen makes a trenchant examination of one of the great conundrums of philosophy and religion: the problem of evil. As the author states in the foreword: All the problems of life, whether they be social, political, or religiou...

Man - King of Mind, Body and Circumstance

The Shining Gateway can be seen as a prose commentary by James Allen on the experience of the pilgrimage described his dramatic poem "Eolaus". In search of enlightenment, the restless pilgrim, after having exhausted the delights of material creation,...

The Shining Gateway

The Swedish playwright August Strindberg was one of the founding fathers of naturalistic theater. A feature of many of his plays is the minute dissection of attitude and motivation by individuals within tightly bound groups. As in the present drama, ...

The Creditor

This short treatise is unique among the works of James Allen in that it focuses on the message of a single spiritual master. In his writings Allen usually quotes eclectically from the sayings attributed to a wide range of teachers, but here he examin...

Through the Gates of Good

Sun Tzu on The Art of War  The oldest military treatise in the world  Translated by Lionel Giles.  Narrated by Denis Daly.  Although the historicity of Sun Tzu is today in dispute, his short treatise on the art of war has remained a preeminent classi...

The Art of War

An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope and narrated by Denis Daly  First published in 1711, An Essay on Criticism was one of Pope's earliest major poems. As the title suggests, it is an exploration of what Pope considered to be the essential aspects...

An Essay on Criticism

Timely Tales in Thirty Minutes  Spend your next 30 minutes traveling to a future where first adopters have the most advanced robot butlers or where everyone has a superpower - except the young man you just met. Or perhaps you prefer a good hard-boile...

Timely Tales in Thirty Minutes

After early adventures as a soldier, journalist and lecturer Henry Harrison Brown established himself as a practitioner and teacher of metal healing in 1893. In 1900 he became editor and publisher of NOW magazine in San Francisco which became a popul...

How to Control Fate through Suggestion

This collection of bush ballads, published in 1895, contains some of the most iconic pieces of Australian poetry and has served as the source material for many paintings, films, and stage presentations. 

The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses

In this short treatise, James Allen examines those spiritual qualities that are traditionally associated with the heart: love, compassion, gentleness, good will, and patience. In the words of the author: "He who aspires to the attainment of the Highe...

Out from the Heart

Passion and intrigue among the upper classes form the basis of Lady Windermere's Fan, Oscar Wilde's first successful play, which displays his trademark wit and wisdom. Beautiful and innocent Lady Windermere finds out that her husband has been keeping...

Lady Windermere's Fan

This collection of the reported sayings of the Buddha is one of the canonical texts of Theravada Buddhism. Written in simple and concise language, and embellished with picturesque examples, this manual of moral practice has a powerful universality wh...

The Dhammapada

As a vivid portrait of alienation and despair, few narratives have surpassed Henry Lawson’s depiction of the grinding poverty endured by many settlers in the Australian outback. In the simple and direct language of his stoic narrator, Joe Wilson, he ...

Water Them Geraniums

While debate continues about the historicity of Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, the collection of sayings attributed to him, has remained one of the most influential religious texts of all time. Using simple yet profound language, the author probes the eternal mystery of the Tao, the elusive substrate which underlies all creation. 

Tao Te Ching

Zen for Americans. Sermons of a Buddhist abbot by Soyen Shaku. Translated by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki. Narrated by Denis Daly.  In a world riddled with irreconcilable conflict among doctrinaire religions, Soyen Shaku's crisp and incisive commentaries o...

Zen for Americans

Making his way to a tryst with his "dark lady" near the royal palace the young playwright William Shakespeare encounters a mysterious woman in a cloak. Mistaking her for his lady friend, he accosts her in a familiar fashion, only to discover, to his ...

The Dark Lady of the Sonnets

This book is a critical analysis by an ex-Muslim activist of religion in general and of Islam in particular. It describes the author's journey out of Islam and discusses in depth the many common misconceptions about Islam that are prevalent both within and outside the Islamic world.

The Curse of God

A comedy in three acts by William Somerset Maugham Presented by the Online Stage After many years living abroad with her longtime lover, Lady Catherine Champion-Cheney visits her former marital home, now occupied by her son, Arnold, and his wife, Eli...

The Circle

New Poems by D.H.Lawrence. Narrated by Denis Daly.   This audiobook is a collection of 42 poems first published in 1920. In it, Lawrence explores the possibilities of free verse, of which he says in the preface: “This is the unrestful, ungraspable poetry of the sheer present, poetry whose very permanency lies in its wind-like transit.”

New Poems

Norman Lindsay’s classic tale about an anthropomorphic pudding and its band of protectors was written in 1917, in response to an argument between Lindsay and the critic and anthologist Bertram Stevens about the types of stories that would appeal most...

The Magic Pudding

Two themes that recur very frequently in the works of James Allen are passion and purity. However, unlike many writers on moral discipline, the author regards purity as the natural state of man, which has been obscured by passionate attachment to ext...

From Passion to Peace

Isaac Dooman (1857-1931), clergyman, traveler, and linguist, was born in Iran. For 25 years he served as an Episcopalian missionary in Japan and later moved permanently to the United States. One of his four children was Eugene Dooman, who became an i...

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Like Wallace D. Wattles, the reclusive James Allen (1864-1912) has posthumously become an icon in the self-help industry and particularly for practitioners who promote a life of unrestrained abundance. Ironically, Allen actually recommended a life of...

All These Things Added

The Raven Edition, Volume Five: Poetry and Drama Narrated by Bob Gonzalez, Jennifer Fournier, Cate Barratt, and Denis Daly.  The Raven Edition of the works of Edgar Allan Poe (1809 – 1849) presents his complete literary output in five volumes. In add...

The Works of Edgar Allen Poe, The Raven Edition: Volume 5 - Poetry and Drama

Incompatibility of Temper: Three Pictures of Moscow Life by Alexander Ostrovsky  Translated by Ethel Voynich Presented by the Online Stage Alexander Ostrovsky was the premier Russian dramatist before Chekov, and a true master of realistic satire. His...

Incompatibility of Temper

The turn of the 20th century saw radical developments in all art forms and particularly in poetry. The first volume of this series features the work of nine significant poets whose careers cover the period from the late 19th century to the early 20th...

Modern Classic Verse - Volume 1 - End of a Century

In the final volume of The Divine Comedy, Dante completes his tour of the afterlife and rises to the highest sphere of heaven. His guide is Beatrice, who acts as both an object of devotion and also a source of instruction. In verse of the most sublim...

The Divine Comedy: Paradiso

This lyrical ballad is one of Tennyson's most famous poems. The subject, the tragic passing of a reclusive noblewoman, was suggested by a 13th-century Italian romance, the Donna di Scalotta.

The Lady of Shalott

James Allen (1864-1912) was the author of some 20 books on the subject of self-improvement, the most famous of which is his short treatise on the power of thought, As a Man Thinketh. In his larger works, Allen described in greater detail the processe...

From Poverty to Power: Or, the Realization of Prosperity and Peace

Many masters employed the form of the sonnet, including Petrarch, Spenser, Shakespeare, Keats, and Robert Bridges. However, the most celebrated, and oft quoted, examples are to be found in the collection by Shakespeare, first published in 1609. In th...

The Sonnets of William Shakespeare

Translated by William Gemmell. Narrated by Denis Daly The Diamond Sutra is one of the most revered philosophical texts in Buddhist literature. It has long been very popular among Buddhists in China, and with the exception of the Lotus of the Good Law...

The Diamond Sutra

Although Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) is best known today as a master of macabre fiction, his writings cover a wide range of other forms, including poetry, drama, criticism, and historical commentary.  The Raven Edition presents his complete literary ...

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition: Volume One

The Boor, by Anton Chekhov - translated by Hilmar Baukage. Presented by the Online Stage.  The Boor (sometimes translated as The Bear) is an atypical romantic comedy by Anton Chekhov. A surly landowner visits a widow who is one of his debtors - with unexpected results.  Cast: Helen Ivanonva Popov - Susan Iannucci; Grigori Stepanovich Smirnov - David Prickett; Luka - Denis Daly  Stage directions read by Marty Kryz. 

The Boor

Initially published in 1914, Papa was the first major dramatic work by playwright and poet Zoë Akins (1886-1958). A subtle but quietly savage comedy of manners, the play was not a commercial success but has since come to be regarded as a masterpiece....

Papa by Zoe Akins

The Forerunner is written by Kahlil Gibran and narrated by Denis Daly. This collection of meditations on spiritual development was published in 1920. In the words of the author: "You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded are but the foundation of your giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundation."

The Forerunner

In one of his more curious and provocative works, James Allen addresses a wide range of issues, including employment, corporate and personal morality, and the gradual evolution of a higher consciousness in humanity.

Men and Systems

First published in 1874, "The City of Dreadful Night" is an extended poetic meditation on melancholy, or what is generally termed today as depression. Thomson's "city" is the "città dolente" of Dante, the domain of souls trapped in a round of ceasele...

The City of Dreadful Night

During his lifetime, Hopkins, who was ordained as a Jesuit priest, was best known as a scholar and a teacher of languages. In his youth, he composed poetry prolifically, but destroyed all his juvenile work in 1867. In 1874, he commenced writing poetr...

Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

A History of the Popes by Joseph McCabe. Narrated by Denis Daly.  Joseph McCabe's study of papal history is unusual in that he takes a hostile view of the Roman Catholic Church in general, and of the papacy in particular. Raised as a Catholic, McCabe...

A History of the Popes

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen. Presented by The Online Stage. Northanger Abbey is one of Jane Austen’s first novels, though it was not published until after her death, and contains some of her most biting satire. Catherine Morland, the novel’s naiv...

Northanger Abbey

A Tear and a Smile by Kahlil Gibran Narrated by Denis Daly This collection, first published in 1914, contains 28 short pieces in prose and verse, which present themes frequently explored in Gibran's other works. These include love, death, creation myths and spiritual realization.

A Tear and a Smile

Stephen Leacock was a prolific and brilliant writer, whose tongue-in-cheek writings have been amusing Canadian fans for decades. He first published Winsome Winnie in 1920 as part of a compendium of short stories entitled Winsome Winnie and Other New ...

Winsome Winnie

This treatise on politics was the fruit of Machiavelli's many years of experience as a diplomat and historian and circulated in 1513 but not published until 1532. It was dedicated to Lorenzo de Medici, a member of the ruling dynasty of Florence.  In ...

The Prince

Together with the Iliad, the Odyssey, The Divine Comedy and Paradise Lost, the Aeneid is one of the true monuments of world literature. Like all these great classics, over the centuries it has become stultified by academic formalism, and its true glo...

Virgil's Aeneid in Modern Verse

The Secret of Success by William Walker Atkinson. Narrated by Denis Daly. William Walker Atkinson was one of the pioneers of the New Thought movement, the philosophy of which underlies many of the ventures in the self-help industry of today. He was e...

The Secret of Success

Russell Conwell (1843-1925) was a man of many parts - lawyer, Baptist minister, traveler, Civil War veteran, and philanthropist - but is best remembered today for his celebrated lecture, Acres of Diamonds, which was published in book form in 1890. Co...

Acres of Diamonds

Listeners are invited to sit back and enjoy this collection of classic Yuletide tales.  Contents  "The Christmas Dream of Little Charles" by J. S. Redfield  "A Christmas Inspiration" by L. M. Montgomery  The Christmas Present" by Richmal Crompton  A ...

Twelve Stories of Christmas

Lamia By John Keats Introduction by Margaret Robertson Narrated by Denis Daly Lamia is a narrative poem that reflects Keat's intensive exploration of Greek mythology. It first appeared in 1820 in a collection entitled Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St A...

Lamia

Joseph McCabe was one of the most learned and prolific of atheist writers. In his earlier life, he had been a Catholic priest, fluent in several languages, who taught philosophy and history in ecclesiastical colleges. He wrote over two hundred books ...

Atheism - The Logic of Disbelief

"Enoch Arden" is a long narrative poem that is built on a theme that has been widely explored in literature and on film. A man is separated from his family due to shipwreck and marooned on an island. After several years of absence from his home, it i...

Enoch Arden

This evocative poem was first published in 1832 but republished in 1842 with extensive alterations. The narrative is based on an incident in Book Nine of the Odyssey.  Odysseus' weary crew lands on the shore of the land of the lotus-eaters, who are o...

The Lotus Eaters

Hyperion By John Keats Narrated by Denis Daly Keats commenced writing his epic poem, Hyperion, in 1818 and ceased working on it in the spring of 1819. He said that he gave the project up for having "too many Miltonic inversions." The unfinished poem, which ceases in the middle of the third canto, was published in 1820. The narrative is based on the Titanomachia, or War of the Titans, and describes the aftermath of their fall to the Olympian Gods.

Hyperion

This poem was written by Wordsworth after a walking tour through the Welsh Borders. As usual with many of Wordsworth's poems, it opens with a description of the countryside which is then developed into a philosophical reflection about beauty and the suggestive power of recollection. The poem was first published in 1798 in Lyrical Ballads, an anthology in which Wordsworth collaborated with Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey

The Witch of Atlas By Percy Bysshe Shelley Narrated by Denis Daly and Linda Barrans The Witch of Atlas is a poetic narrative, written in 1820 and published posthumously in 1824.  The witch is the daughter of the Pleiades, the seven daughters of Atlas...

The Witch of Atlas

Isabella Or the Pot of Basil A Story from Boccaccio By John Keats Introduction by Margaret Robertson Narrated by Denis Daly Isabella, or the Pot of Basil (1818) is a poetic retelling of a story from The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio. The poem relat...

Isabella or the Pot of Basil

John Keats died in Rome in February 1821, at the age of 25. Shelley, who was to follow him to the grave the following year, was inspired to compose this pastoral lament, which consists of 55 Spenserian stanzas.   Shelley bitterly, but incorrectly, at...

Adonais

Although his output was small, John of the Cross (1542 - 1591) is considered one of the most important figures in Spanish poetry. All his verses explore the same theme: the search of the soul for union with its creator and the glory of the resulting "mystical marriage". This selection of 20 poems opens with his most famous poem, "The Obscure Night of the Soul" and concludes with a free translation of "Psalm 137 (By the Waters of Babylon)".

Poems of John of the Cross

Edward "Ned" Kelly (1854 -1880) was the last and most celebrated Australian bushranger (outlaw). After being implicated in the shooting of three policemen at Stringybark Creek in October, 1878, Kelly and his gang were declared by the Victorian govern...

The Jerilderie Letter

Narrated by Denis Daly Not all the young poets whose lives were cut short during the First World War were actual casualties of the conflict. James Elroy Flecker and Rupert Brooke both died in 1915, each leaving a body of finished work which places hi...

Poems - 1905-1911

Much of Tennyson's poetry is elegiac in nature, featuring characters who have been disempowered by isolation, age, or lack of opportunity. One of the most famous examples of this is the dramatic soliloquy, "Ulysses", in which the aging hero visualize...

Ulysses and Columbus

Written by celebrated Australian poet, C.J. Dennis, Digger Smith is part of a collection of verse novels following the exploits of everyday Australian characters.      Digger Smith is an Australian soldier who has fought at Gallipoli. An old mate of ...

Digger Smith

This poem consists of 11 stanzas of varying length,  the first four of which were composed in 1802.  These deal with the subject of death,  a concept with which Wordsworth confesses to having struggled within childhood. This section ends with two que...

Ode: Intimations of Immortality

The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke is a classic Australian work of poetry composed by renowned poet, C.J. Dennis (1876-1938). This verse-novel chronicles Bill's coming-of-age through romance, love, and fatherhood. From rambunctious street-strolling youth to settled, responsible father, Bill's story unfolds with keen Aussie larrikinism and humour. This work is narrated as a duet by Denis Daly (Bill) and Sarah Bacaller (Doreen).

The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke

The Enchiridion  By Epictetus   Translated by Thomas W. Higginson   Narrated by Denis Daly   This small handbook of the theory and practice of Stoic philosophy has become one of the most influential of all texts from the ancient world. It has been a ...

The Enchiridion

Doreen is a verse-novel by renowned Australian poet, C.J. Dennis (1876-1938). As one of the sequels to the 1915 verse-novel, The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke, it continues to follow the family capers of Bill and Doreen along with their young son. Originally published in 1917, Doreen is a classic work of Australian poetry.

Doreen

In the words of the translator:   Nearly all Michael Angelo's sonnets express personal feelings, and by far the greater number of them were composed after his 60th year. To whom they were addressed, we only know in a few instances. Nothing is more cl...

The Sonnets of Michelangelo

The Babylonian Legends of the Creation and the Fight between Bel and the Dragon as told by Assyrian Tablets from Nineveh Translated by E.A. Wallis-Budge Narrated by Denis Daly A significant focus of the literature of the ancient Near East, which incl...

The Babylonian Legends of the Creation and the Fight Between Bel and the Dragon

Death and the Devil: A Dance of Death in Three Scenes by Frank Wedekind. Translated by Samuel A. Eliot and Denis Daly. Cast: The Marquis Casti-Piani - John Burlinson; Fräulein Elfriede von Malchus - Amanda Friday; Herr König - Mark Crowle-Groves; Lis...

Death and the Devil

An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard By Thomas Gray Narrated by Denis Daly Today Thomas Gray is remembered almost solely for this melancholy meditation on the inevitability of death and the insignificance of fame. Samuel Johnson thought little of ...

An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard

Asoka By James MacPhail Narrated by Denis Daly Asoka, who reigned from 268 to 232 BC, was the most famous emperor of the Maurya Dynasty, which was the ruling clan of the Indian subcontinent from 321 BC to 185 BC. He was one of the most famous early c...

Asoka

Poems  By Oscar Wilde   Narrated by Denis Daly   Wilde's first collection of verse, published in 1881, contains many poems which had already been published individually. Among the 61 poems can be found four major works, "The Garden of Eros", "The Bur...

Poems by Oscar Wilde

Jim of the Hills is a verse novel written by celebrated Australian poet, C.J. Dennis (1876-1938). It is narrated by shy, hard-working Jim, who works for a sawmill in the Australian bush. With characteristic pathos and wit, the story unfolds in twists...

Jim of the Hills

Early Poems By Alfred, Lord Tennyson Narrated by Denis Daly The selection of eighteen poems is taken from Tennyson's first collection, published in 1830.  The most famous poem in the collection is Mariana, a dramatic narrative, which, like The Lady of Shalott, describes the tragic fate of an abandoned woman.  All the poems feature the elegant euphony for which Tennyson's verse has become famous.

Early Poems

Among his many other attributes, James Elroy Flecker was a skilled linguist and an expert translator of Latin poetry. In 1913, he planned to write a book to be entitled An interpretation in blank verse of Virgil, Aeneid VI, based on the poetic value ...

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